IAN’s POV :

It took everything in me to watch her leave and do nothing.

If I had forced her to stay, maybe she would have. But then again, she’d resent me for it. My hands fell to my sides and I kept looking at the door, just in case maybe she’d turn around.

But she never did.

I sat down on the couch and replayed the past few hours in my head again. It was Friday like any other Friday, nothing out of the ordinary. I woke up, made coffee, went to school and taught a class, and then I went to the exhibition after lunch. I always checked...